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Chicago examiner thursday vol xii no 57 a m Chicago february 26 1914 thursday registered in u 3 patent office price one cent delivered fay carrier 30 cents per month remarkable offer to buy cubs made by Chicago men stipulate restoration of evers admission of federal league to organized baseball and ex tension of park lease 50 years test of validity of so-called re 1 serve clause also demanded bar interest in two clubs to eradicate syndicateism.j cincinnati <"â€¢.. keb so.-atioruey | h 3 behan representing a syndicate of Chicago men met charles p Taft here today and made a direct proposition to purchase the controlling interest in the Chicago national league baseball club for 750,000 the deal was not closed for the reason that the conditions submitted l>y mr bchan included not only tlie purchase of ihe controlling interest in the cubs but also the eradication of syndicate baseball ownership so far as mr Taft is con erned one of the conditions of the purchase was that mr Taft should cither sell out his interest in the philadelphia national league club or else that he should dls ! jiose of his entire holdings iu the cbi | ago cubs this was lie first condition imposed by the syndicate in their pro posal to purchase the majority of stock but there were other conditions eten arder to fulfill against syndicate ownership i'iie emphasis of the first condition was . it the syndicate of baseball enthusiasts i i Chicago who were willing to invest j t.t0.1100 in a baseball speculation were ntirely and thoroughly against any taint it syndicate ownership in the national league the fact that mr Taft owns and prac tically controls both the philadelphia and the Chicago national league teams have given much concern to the men back of orgnnlbed baseball because they believe i that syndicalism does not appeal to the i american public the enthusiasts of each town like to think that some men of that town hare mi interest in the club and that it is not a mere commercial and syndicated scheme of gathering money at the ex pense of the patriotic public j want evers restored other conditions which the Chicago men insisted upon if the controlling interest in the cubs was to be bought for st3o 000 are . 1 thnt the present owner of the cubs immediately take action to test the val idity of the so-called reserve clause n the highest court of resort ::. that uvers be restored to the cubj team j that the federal league clubs be iuiuitted to organized baseball 4 thnt the lease on the cubs park which expires in three years be extended for a period of fifty years the conditions were set forth in a let ter from the syndicate of Chicago men which was read to mr Taft by mr be ban iu full the letter reads as fol lows letter to Taft mr charles p Taft cincinnati o my dear sir referring to my telegram dated Chicago february 28 in which i of fered you on behalf of clients 700,000 for controlling interest in the stock of the Chicago league ball club i de sire to present for your consideration a few conditions upon which our offer was made if these conditions are acceptable to you we will arrange to moke a deposit as an evidence of good faith preparatory to conducting our negotiations the men whom i represent are desirous of investing in the cub stock first as n business proposition and secondly be cause of their genuine interest in the tame of baseball it is their belief that with the ownership or control of the team in the hands of Chicago men and with proper management along with the selec tion of a team manager conversant with the rules and requirements of clean base rall the Chicago cubs will regain the standing in the baseball world to which hat team was brought under the leader ship of frank chance many things have brought about the i'lesent antagonism to the management of the cubs and several features of or ganised baseball have had the effect of creating doubt and district in the minds x baseball enthusiasts the country over makes a condition chief of these is what is known rs syndicate baseball as a condition precedent to a purchase of the controll wiley offers aid to draft new food law present act killed by bleached flour decision he says washington feb 2o dr harvey w wiley former government pure food expert to-day offered to co-operate with congress in the establishment of a new law which would offset the bleached flour decision of the supreme court dr wiley said the supreme court's de cision bad killed the pure food and drug law the food and drugs act must i>e made bo specific by congress he said that any form of adulteration can be pun ished danish queen guest of american women mrs rudolph spreckels and mrs charles singer the hostesses special cable to ttio examiner paris feb 23 mrs rudolph spreck els gave a dinner last night for the queen of denmark who is visiting the riviera the other guests were the irand duke of hecklenburg-strellbs grand duchess abastasia of mecklenburg-strelltz grand duchess licorge of hussia and spencer eddy the queen attended â– brilliant ball given at the villa primavera by mrs charles siiil-cr tlie previous evening grand duke michael countess torby prince and princess louise of orleans princess kadziwill and princess ghika who was miss hazel singer also were present jack london would run for president novelist willing to accept nom ination on prohibition ticket san francisco feb 25.-jack lou don announces that be will accept the prohibition nomination for president of the united states if it is tendered him eastern prohibitionists feel that lou don's name would be a big factor in their campaign since the widespread popularity of bis john barleycorn charles terry white prominent prohibitionist of chi cago declares that the party is seriously considering the california novelist as tbeir standard bearer london hi just returned from a trip to new york george broadhurst sued for separation playwright's wife alleges he abandoned her new rohk fib 23 george broad lmrst author of bought and paid for man of the hour and other ilnys ii lieiug sued here fur a separation by ida raymond btoadhuist the couple were married iu 1887 in Chicago and have two children mrs broadhurst alleges her husband abandoned her november 20 v.)\2 and has since spent much of his time in the company of diva miraldi the playwright has been allowing his wife s.'ioo a mouth but she says this is not adequate gov dunne and two others lunch for 30c egg sandwich diet between meet ings with washington notables washington feb 25 governor ed ward f dunne of Illinois veld the tra ditional simplicity of the democratic party by lunching to-day at a fifteenth street lunchroom lietween appointments with tw o cabinet officers attorney gen eral mcÃŸeynolds and secretary of state bryan the others at the modest lunch eon were john barrett director general of the bureau of american republics and joseph sullivan secretary to sen ator lewis of Illinois they consumed three egg sandwiches two cups of coffee and a mug of milk total 80c mrs simpson did not kill self jury's verdict relatives dissatisfied and shoot ing case will be reopened by coroner mluÃŸilhilillhllm shots not heard in house employes of Chicago woman found shot to death tes tify at inquest lexington ky feb 23 â€” mrs laura wilder simpson beautiful Chicago girl who four months ago came here the bride of lawrence simpson and who nas found shot through the head la her room last sunday and who died soon after did not commit suicide we agree unit mrs simpson did not kill herself said the verdict of the coro ner's jury which to-day held an inquest but we find that she came lo her death from a gunshot wound in tuc right tem ple in a manner mysterious to tills jury both the family and county officers are dissatisfied with the verdict and coroner jordon after a conference with mrs simpson's father and husband announced that lie wi'l recall the jury introduce more witnesses and insist that the jury declare officially the cause of death neither the family the coroner nor til sheriff is willing that the case should be left shrouded in mystery husband wealthy mrs simpson was the daughter of dr i ami mrs william 11 wilder of Chicago her husband is one of the wealthiest young farmers find stockmen iu i'ayette j county and brought her to live on his i farm ten miles out of this city their j life apparently had been happy i had been away from her only a short time mr simpson testified we slept iate sunday morning and think it was i o'clock when breakfast was over i read the papers talked witii my hired man in his room about some ivork and it was about an hour later that i returned to the sitting room my wife was not there so 1 weut to her room i found her lying across the bed which she bad made up ami my re volver on the bed at her bide she was unconscious and blood was coming from i a hole ii her right temple in a frenzy i hurled the revolver 1 across the room and against the wall i called to the hired man and began to bathe her head when 1 could not rouse her i telephoned for a doctor husband's revolver the revolver is mine 1 kept it iu a dresser drawer at the head of the bed my wife knew where i kept it the only other persons about the house were joe carter and scott green the negro hired men and annie wheeler the negro cook all declared they did not hear any shot i don't b'leeye miss laura killed her , self testified annie wheeler she was ' happy all de time siugin 1 like a bird j w'y i heard her siiyrin after she went , up to her room dat murnin ' dr wilder mrs simpson father who had come from Chicago testified that his daughter was o a cheerful disposi tion and only two days before her death had written a letter to her parents tell ing them how happy she was and asking them to visit her the funeral was held at the residence of a relative here this afternoon and dr wilder and mr simpson went from the coroner's office to the funeral interment was in lexington explorers are returning adelaide feb 25 the mawsou ex pedition is returning from the antarctic after two years exploitation of adelie land their vessel the aurora reports all well americans held by brigands in albania i representative of u s reports matter to embassy at rome special cabls to the examiner durazzo albania feb 25 mr spen cer who is watching albanian affairs in behalf of the united states at lil basiin reports that brigands have captured some dnited states citizens it s bolievej here the captives are albanians natural ized in america mr spencer further states that live american citizens cap tured at pogradetz have been threatened with execution for teaching the ameri can language the matter has been re ferred to the united states embassy at liome liy the american prote&tant mis sionaries here these persons probably are victims of a tribal feud which is an every-day occurrence 100,000 in gold is dug from gary sand precious metal lost by united states refining company gaby lnd feb s with no more improved apparatus than garden spades i and hand sieves a number of scientific gentlemen have iu tin last week taken more than 100.000 in pure gold and | silver from the sand iu the western part i of gary lnd xo it is not a second klondike noil a second cripple creek and there has been no wild rush of prospectors to stake out claims and no killings over the jump ing of cliims for tlie find is on pat ented ground neither will there be a great revival of placer mining nor will a shaft be suuk the truth is the united slates metal i refining company is merely recovering what ii had lost for a long time there lias been a shortage in every lot of metal refined the cause was found â€” a leaking pipe which spilled gold anil silver into the sand and the chemists with spades and sieves recovered it society woman dons green wig on street john wanamaker's daughter cop ies paris style philadelphia pa feb i mrs barclay warbnrton who was miss mary w:mamuker a dniighter of john waua maker t'n-ilriy walked down isrond street to the rite-carlton wearing a groeu wig the first to adopt in public in this country the fashion which has created a furore in paris eight colored wigs made their debut at the bal masque last night and mrs war burton liked the color combination so well she decided to wear the wig to the break fast luncheon to-day miss catherine force of xew york wore a purple wig at the bal masque miss beatrice fos of this city blue mrs wil liam baker whclen sister-in-law of mrs uobert joelet alice blue miss helen carson cerise mrs harvey sayen ce rise mrs w reynolds wilson green and miss adeline l s pepper purple lambs grow to sheep sues for 533,926 railroad was charged with long delay in suit by shippers denver colo feb 23 a train load of lambs that grew into sheep before they were placed on the market after leaving their pasture in western colorado for stockdale 111 in may l'job is the basis of a suit instituted in the district court to-day against the ilock island railroad company the plaintiffs are frede-ict kaling and lee simouson and the num ber of sheeji involved is 22.1w4 for which judgments of 5303.9Â±ti.22 are demanded the lambs it is alleged were delivered to the railroad in may iuos lor delivery to stockdale from which place they were to be marketed it is charged that the railroad company kept the lambs without trying to market them until they had grown into full-fleeced sheep debtor would seize lady warwick's deer special cable to the examiner london feb 23 an attempt by the sheriff of essex to seize lady warwick's herd of 600 deer for debt was foiled by the high court to-day the countess trustees entered the plea that the deer were protected by the settlement under the will of lady warwick's grandfather viscount maynard poet noyes to join princeton faculty princeton n j feb 23 1t is learned that alfred xoyes the knglish poet has been invited to join the faculty of princeton i'niversity and it is under stood he lias agreed to accept the chair which mr noycs is to fill is that of a visiting professorship it calls for lec tures on modern knglish vincent astor ill a week new yoltlv feb 25 a severe cola that has settled upon his uliest has seri ously interfered with the many activi ties of vincent astor the young man it was learned to-day has been confined to hu town house for the past week detective jailed on charge of bribe plot i major funkhouser alleges that owners of disorderly houses promised inspector of morals dannenberg 2,200 a month officer was to prevent and tip off raids trap laid and harry cullet is arrested de clared to have passed money an alleged plot to bribe inspector of ! morals w g daunenberg of second dep j uty of police 51 li c funkhouser's de j partment to the end that certain houses of the red light district might be al lowed to operate was revealed early this morning when deputy funkhouser's men arrested harry cullet a private de tective gullet is held at the town hall police station with no charge as yet booked against him but major funkhouser says that be probably will be charged with bribery the major says moreover that he knows the uames of the men who put np the money which was put into mr dan neuberg's hands and that he has a clear case of conspiracy against them briefly the alleged plot was to pay dannenberg fi.'jx a month s:.'oy a month | from each of eleven houses if he would tip ' them off when a raid was to be made when dannenberg had given the warn ing only a few occasional arrests were to be allowed money in addition to the i?2.'.'00 a month was to be paid in cases where saloons were operated in connection with the dis orderly houses signal brings arrest the arrest of cullet was made when as dnnuenberg alleges he met him by ap pointment at sheridan road and wilson j avenue and a large sum of money changed hands on a signal from dan nenberg fuukhouser's men ran forth and made the arrest the firm of cullet & meyers is made up of berthel j meyers formerly a special agent for the department of justice un der charles f de woody and harry cullet known as chicken harry for merly a detective traveling out of the south clark street station bribery is charged major funfchouser's statement follows there have been negotiations pend ing on the part of parties operating in the red light district with a view to bribing members of the staff of the second deputy superintendent of po lice major funkhouser after several meetings the affair took the shape of an attempt to bribe the inspector of morals w c dannenberg who at once informed major funkhouser and george l eeker assistant corporation counsel a close watch was kept on all meetings of the different parties interested and the conversations over the telephone were carefully taken dowu by stenographers iu the office of the second deputy it was proposed several times to mr dauueuberg that iu case he would ar range to keep his men off from certain houses in the district and in case he made raids to give notice beforehand so thht only a few should be taken and the fines would be light that he would receive the sum of l'oo from each house it was represented to him that there woman threatens wheeler son's wife asks thousands promises tunnel expose son's ex-actress wife promises financial rumble if she isn't paid mrs albert gallatin wheeler jr who used to be known as the pretty girl in the red tights in the heyday of her light operatic existence is about to start some thing she never tried before in the last two years she has been trying to collect the 000 a mouth alimony awarded to her with her divorce from wheeler and she has been trying in vain now i shall make certain financial rev elations"â€”the very words of the pretty young woman nhicn will agitate tlie world of money from Chicago to london mrs wheeler or claudia carlstedt as she is known when she is on the stage â€” says she is playing her last card and that she intends to make her multi-mil lionaire father-in-law come through or else expose him flnaacially the threat met with a smile or two when the girl first uttered it but she was very earnest she knows about the tunnels i am referring she said with dig nity to the freight tunnels in Chicago the secret history of them i know all about those tunnels and all about the men that put them through i know what al bert gallattn wheeler sr had to do with it i know what charles t yerkes did i know enough to start an awful rtimpus in la salle street or wall street or some where and the consequences might t)e something terrible if i should tell all i know but i'm going to do it if papa wheeler doesn't pay me my alimony claudia has been coustantly on the trail of her some-time father-in-law be cause she says he has custody of her former husband's fortune and she must mrs albert gallatin wheeler jr boy saves scores in fire in flats â€¢ one of ifie practical lessons he had learned at school enabled i fifteen-year old boy charlie beck of l'l kast wai ton place to assist in saving the lives or perhaps a score of people last night when you see a lire his teacher told the class a few days agq run to a tele phone and call up main zero and tell the operator where the fire is last night charlie was going home about 11 o'clock when he saw smoke rolling from the new garibaldi flats at bush street and walton place main zero flashed into his mind anil he ran to a telephone and gave the alarm then lie ran to the burning house and met policeman john qulnn just arriving charlie stood in the hallway and rang all the bells in turn while quinu worked through smoke and beat on the doors with his club everyone in the place was asleep on the fourth floor quinu stumbled over the body of mrs joseph roberts who awekened by the bell bad run into the hallway and been overcome by the smoke the policeman carried her to the street the eleven families gol to the street in safety among them are the families of c taylor 1 r strom joseph roberts and stephen le porte alter working for half an hour the ftremeu kept it fiom going above the basement several paintings in the art store of 11 7 heldrich & son on the first floor were ruiired crossed electric wires in the basement i probably caused the fire according t/a battalion chief arthur seyferlich mexicans imprison 16 americans three hot son of banker just released says that gustav bauch is among the captives held incommunicado at juarez while in cuartel eleven days he says he saw nine men lined up against the wall and â– put to death by general villa new york feb 26 a wash ington dispatch this morning state that machine guns and ammunition have been installed in the american embassy in mexico city this statement is said to have been con firmed at the war department rear admiral fletcher has urg.ed the sending of marines to mexico city and the war department is con sidering plans for sending 1,000 marines to the mexican capita washington feb 25 rigid investigation of the killing of cle menti vagarez by order of general villa was ordered by the 3tate de j partment to-day following official | confirmation from consul garrett at i laredo of early reports of the siay ing the investigation is to be made by consul garrett state department officials said they had heard that vagarez was killed on american soil as a warn ing to the united states by villa but that this had not been offi cially confirmed el paso tex feb 25 thai gustav ranch the american arrested while sight | seeing in juarez on february 13 charged with being 8 federal spy is being held [ incommunicado at the cuartel over t lie river is the statement made by a mleh aelis of brooklyn who says his father is a director of tlie union trust com pany michaelis was released from jail in juarez to-day lifter being held eleven days michaelis made this statement to mrs j m patterson states of banch confined in the juarez cunrtel are six i teen other americans aeeordins to mich aelis they are prohibited from talking to any visitors ut the euartel and when americana itc escorted through the prison the doors of cells of the american prisoners are closed and blankets hung over the peepholes three americans shot among the prisoners arc edward tra bard matt giddings 11 t mavis v k goodman and a railroad man named thornton while he was locked in a dungeon says michaelis he could look through the peephole into the patio of the | prison while he was held there he witnessed nine executions three of which were americans the others were mexicans among them 101 coyote on j five different days be saw men lined up against the adobe wall and u i 1 1 â– i ! an american named gray was among those executed according to michaelis â– bauch in solitary cell here follows the statement ii mkuae lis just twelve days ago 1 came to juarea for the purpose of sightseeing being on my way to the coast while playing poker i got into an ar gument with another player over the poa session of some chips and we engaged in a fight i was arrested when 1 was taken to the cuartel i met niauy other american prisoners there among whom was bauch ho is in solitary confinement but occasionally i hail an opportunity to speak with him as a little hole in the cell door was i thrown open he was much frightened concerning his safety fearing he was to be executed describes prisoner bauch told me the details of his ar rest saying he bad a bister mrs j m patterson who resided i 101 paso and requested me as soon ms released to get into communication with her and to nsfe her to notify the american authorities he is showing signs of nervous strain sleeps anil eats little his beard has grown out long and he has a haggard ap [ pev-nnce ijdftrp the american gave mr patter i a good description of her brother centlnued en 11th page 6th column continued on bth page 3d column ccntinued on 2d page 5th column examiner leads in circulation the daily and sunday examiner in january sold more papers in the city of Chicago than any other two morning papers with several thousand to spare circulation books open to the inspection of any advertiser .... , iji â– ' ' 1 . . ' .â– , the way you live depends mostly on where you live fr a cheerless room means a cheer %Â£)â€¢, â– Â£*- less heart an unsatisfactory board jtril ing house means a sour temper and ina bility to do good work why handicap yourself with either a forlorn looking room or a stingy looking table - ' j \ tt rhy not have a really good room a a ** really satisfactory boarding house s you can get either through examiner â– / : < â€¢>. want ads if you do not know it now // m you will find out that the best rooms jigllsl\j anc boarding houses are to be found a|;3 through examiner want ads g into sunday's s j2l want ad c Â° ntest Chicago and vicinity fair ( thursday followed by increasing jj ~^\ cloudiness rain or snow friday not o w much change in temperature v'^)v Â¥ itunse of temperatures yesterday a^fc^ils v highest 31 os&^^ik^i lowest 11 1,-o^7 vy " average l v u^mj .

Chicago examiner thursday vol xii no 57 a m Chicago february 26 1914 thursday registered in u 3 patent office price one cent delivered fay carrier 30 cents per month remarkable offer to buy cubs made by Chicago men stipulate restoration of evers admission of federal league to organized baseball and ex tension of park lease 50 years test of validity of so-called re 1 serve clause also demanded bar interest in two clubs to eradicate syndicateism.j cincinnati y mr bchan included not only tlie purchase of ihe controlling interest in the cubs but also the eradication of syndicate baseball ownership so far as mr Taft is con erned one of the conditions of the purchase was that mr Taft should cither sell out his interest in the philadelphia national league club or else that he should dls ! jiose of his entire holdings iu the cbi | ago cubs this was lie first condition imposed by the syndicate in their pro posal to purchase the majority of stock but there were other conditions eten arder to fulfill against syndicate ownership i'iie emphasis of the first condition was . it the syndicate of baseball enthusiasts i i Chicago who were willing to invest j t.t0.1100 in a baseball speculation were ntirely and thoroughly against any taint it syndicate ownership in the national league the fact that mr Taft owns and prac tically controls both the philadelphia and the Chicago national league teams have given much concern to the men back of orgnnlbed baseball because they believe i that syndicalism does not appeal to the i american public the enthusiasts of each town like to think that some men of that town hare mi interest in the club and that it is not a mere commercial and syndicated scheme of gathering money at the ex pense of the patriotic public j want evers restored other conditions which the Chicago men insisted upon if the controlling interest in the cubs was to be bought for st3o 000 are . 1 thnt the present owner of the cubs immediately take action to test the val idity of the so-called reserve clause n the highest court of resort ::. that uvers be restored to the cubj team j that the federal league clubs be iuiuitted to organized baseball 4 thnt the lease on the cubs park which expires in three years be extended for a period of fifty years the conditions were set forth in a let ter from the syndicate of Chicago men which was read to mr Taft by mr be ban iu full the letter reads as fol lows letter to Taft mr charles p Taft cincinnati o my dear sir referring to my telegram dated Chicago february 28 in which i of fered you on behalf of clients 700,000 for controlling interest in the stock of the Chicago league ball club i de sire to present for your consideration a few conditions upon which our offer was made if these conditions are acceptable to you we will arrange to moke a deposit as an evidence of good faith preparatory to conducting our negotiations the men whom i represent are desirous of investing in the cub stock first as n business proposition and secondly be cause of their genuine interest in the tame of baseball it is their belief that with the ownership or control of the team in the hands of Chicago men and with proper management along with the selec tion of a team manager conversant with the rules and requirements of clean base rall the Chicago cubs will regain the standing in the baseball world to which hat team was brought under the leader ship of frank chance many things have brought about the i'lesent antagonism to the management of the cubs and several features of or ganised baseball have had the effect of creating doubt and district in the minds x baseball enthusiasts the country over makes a condition chief of these is what is known rs syndicate baseball as a condition precedent to a purchase of the controll wiley offers aid to draft new food law present act killed by bleached flour decision he says washington feb 2o dr harvey w wiley former government pure food expert to-day offered to co-operate with congress in the establishment of a new law which would offset the bleached flour decision of the supreme court dr wiley said the supreme court's de cision bad killed the pure food and drug law the food and drugs act must i>e made bo specific by congress he said that any form of adulteration can be pun ished danish queen guest of american women mrs rudolph spreckels and mrs charles singer the hostesses special cable to ttio examiner paris feb 23 mrs rudolph spreck els gave a dinner last night for the queen of denmark who is visiting the riviera the other guests were the irand duke of hecklenburg-strellbs grand duchess abastasia of mecklenburg-strelltz grand duchess licorge of hussia and spencer eddy the queen attended â– brilliant ball given at the villa primavera by mrs charles siiil-cr tlie previous evening grand duke michael countess torby prince and princess louise of orleans princess kadziwill and princess ghika who was miss hazel singer also were present jack london would run for president novelist willing to accept nom ination on prohibition ticket san francisco feb 25.-jack lou don announces that be will accept the prohibition nomination for president of the united states if it is tendered him eastern prohibitionists feel that lou don's name would be a big factor in their campaign since the widespread popularity of bis john barleycorn charles terry white prominent prohibitionist of chi cago declares that the party is seriously considering the california novelist as tbeir standard bearer london hi just returned from a trip to new york george broadhurst sued for separation playwright's wife alleges he abandoned her new rohk fib 23 george broad lmrst author of bought and paid for man of the hour and other ilnys ii lieiug sued here fur a separation by ida raymond btoadhuist the couple were married iu 1887 in Chicago and have two children mrs broadhurst alleges her husband abandoned her november 20 v.)\2 and has since spent much of his time in the company of diva miraldi the playwright has been allowing his wife s.'ioo a mouth but she says this is not adequate gov dunne and two others lunch for 30c egg sandwich diet between meet ings with washington notables washington feb 25 governor ed ward f dunne of Illinois veld the tra ditional simplicity of the democratic party by lunching to-day at a fifteenth street lunchroom lietween appointments with tw o cabinet officers attorney gen eral mcÃŸeynolds and secretary of state bryan the others at the modest lunch eon were john barrett director general of the bureau of american republics and joseph sullivan secretary to sen ator lewis of Illinois they consumed three egg sandwiches two cups of coffee and a mug of milk total 80c mrs simpson did not kill self jury's verdict relatives dissatisfied and shoot ing case will be reopened by coroner mluÃŸilhilillhllm shots not heard in house employes of Chicago woman found shot to death tes tify at inquest lexington ky feb 23 â€” mrs laura wilder simpson beautiful Chicago girl who four months ago came here the bride of lawrence simpson and who nas found shot through the head la her room last sunday and who died soon after did not commit suicide we agree unit mrs simpson did not kill herself said the verdict of the coro ner's jury which to-day held an inquest but we find that she came lo her death from a gunshot wound in tuc right tem ple in a manner mysterious to tills jury both the family and county officers are dissatisfied with the verdict and coroner jordon after a conference with mrs simpson's father and husband announced that lie wi'l recall the jury introduce more witnesses and insist that the jury declare officially the cause of death neither the family the coroner nor til sheriff is willing that the case should be left shrouded in mystery husband wealthy mrs simpson was the daughter of dr i ami mrs william 11 wilder of Chicago her husband is one of the wealthiest young farmers find stockmen iu i'ayette j county and brought her to live on his i farm ten miles out of this city their j life apparently had been happy i had been away from her only a short time mr simpson testified we slept iate sunday morning and think it was i o'clock when breakfast was over i read the papers talked witii my hired man in his room about some ivork and it was about an hour later that i returned to the sitting room my wife was not there so 1 weut to her room i found her lying across the bed which she bad made up ami my re volver on the bed at her bide she was unconscious and blood was coming from i a hole ii her right temple in a frenzy i hurled the revolver 1 across the room and against the wall i called to the hired man and began to bathe her head when 1 could not rouse her i telephoned for a doctor husband's revolver the revolver is mine 1 kept it iu a dresser drawer at the head of the bed my wife knew where i kept it the only other persons about the house were joe carter and scott green the negro hired men and annie wheeler the negro cook all declared they did not hear any shot i don't b'leeye miss laura killed her , self testified annie wheeler she was ' happy all de time siugin 1 like a bird j w'y i heard her siiyrin after she went , up to her room dat murnin ' dr wilder mrs simpson father who had come from Chicago testified that his daughter was o a cheerful disposi tion and only two days before her death had written a letter to her parents tell ing them how happy she was and asking them to visit her the funeral was held at the residence of a relative here this afternoon and dr wilder and mr simpson went from the coroner's office to the funeral interment was in lexington explorers are returning adelaide feb 25 the mawsou ex pedition is returning from the antarctic after two years exploitation of adelie land their vessel the aurora reports all well americans held by brigands in albania i representative of u s reports matter to embassy at rome special cabls to the examiner durazzo albania feb 25 mr spen cer who is watching albanian affairs in behalf of the united states at lil basiin reports that brigands have captured some dnited states citizens it s bolievej here the captives are albanians natural ized in america mr spencer further states that live american citizens cap tured at pogradetz have been threatened with execution for teaching the ameri can language the matter has been re ferred to the united states embassy at liome liy the american prote&tant mis sionaries here these persons probably are victims of a tribal feud which is an every-day occurrence 100,000 in gold is dug from gary sand precious metal lost by united states refining company gaby lnd feb s with no more improved apparatus than garden spades i and hand sieves a number of scientific gentlemen have iu tin last week taken more than 100.000 in pure gold and | silver from the sand iu the western part i of gary lnd xo it is not a second klondike noil a second cripple creek and there has been no wild rush of prospectors to stake out claims and no killings over the jump ing of cliims for tlie find is on pat ented ground neither will there be a great revival of placer mining nor will a shaft be suuk the truth is the united slates metal i refining company is merely recovering what ii had lost for a long time there lias been a shortage in every lot of metal refined the cause was found â€” a leaking pipe which spilled gold anil silver into the sand and the chemists with spades and sieves recovered it society woman dons green wig on street john wanamaker's daughter cop ies paris style philadelphia pa feb i mrs barclay warbnrton who was miss mary w:mamuker a dniighter of john waua maker t'n-ilriy walked down isrond street to the rite-carlton wearing a groeu wig the first to adopt in public in this country the fashion which has created a furore in paris eight colored wigs made their debut at the bal masque last night and mrs war burton liked the color combination so well she decided to wear the wig to the break fast luncheon to-day miss catherine force of xew york wore a purple wig at the bal masque miss beatrice fos of this city blue mrs wil liam baker whclen sister-in-law of mrs uobert joelet alice blue miss helen carson cerise mrs harvey sayen ce rise mrs w reynolds wilson green and miss adeline l s pepper purple lambs grow to sheep sues for 533,926 railroad was charged with long delay in suit by shippers denver colo feb 23 a train load of lambs that grew into sheep before they were placed on the market after leaving their pasture in western colorado for stockdale 111 in may l'job is the basis of a suit instituted in the district court to-day against the ilock island railroad company the plaintiffs are frede-ict kaling and lee simouson and the num ber of sheeji involved is 22.1w4 for which judgments of 5303.9Â±ti.22 are demanded the lambs it is alleged were delivered to the railroad in may iuos lor delivery to stockdale from which place they were to be marketed it is charged that the railroad company kept the lambs without trying to market them until they had grown into full-fleeced sheep debtor would seize lady warwick's deer special cable to the examiner london feb 23 an attempt by the sheriff of essex to seize lady warwick's herd of 600 deer for debt was foiled by the high court to-day the countess trustees entered the plea that the deer were protected by the settlement under the will of lady warwick's grandfather viscount maynard poet noyes to join princeton faculty princeton n j feb 23 1t is learned that alfred xoyes the knglish poet has been invited to join the faculty of princeton i'niversity and it is under stood he lias agreed to accept the chair which mr noycs is to fill is that of a visiting professorship it calls for lec tures on modern knglish vincent astor ill a week new yoltlv feb 25 a severe cola that has settled upon his uliest has seri ously interfered with the many activi ties of vincent astor the young man it was learned to-day has been confined to hu town house for the past week detective jailed on charge of bribe plot i major funkhouser alleges that owners of disorderly houses promised inspector of morals dannenberg 2,200 a month officer was to prevent and tip off raids trap laid and harry cullet is arrested de clared to have passed money an alleged plot to bribe inspector of ! morals w g daunenberg of second dep j uty of police 51 li c funkhouser's de j partment to the end that certain houses of the red light district might be al lowed to operate was revealed early this morning when deputy funkhouser's men arrested harry cullet a private de tective gullet is held at the town hall police station with no charge as yet booked against him but major funkhouser says that be probably will be charged with bribery the major says moreover that he knows the uames of the men who put np the money which was put into mr dan neuberg's hands and that he has a clear case of conspiracy against them briefly the alleged plot was to pay dannenberg fi.'jx a month s:.'oy a month | from each of eleven houses if he would tip ' them off when a raid was to be made when dannenberg had given the warn ing only a few occasional arrests were to be allowed money in addition to the i?2.'.'00 a month was to be paid in cases where saloons were operated in connection with the dis orderly houses signal brings arrest the arrest of cullet was made when as dnnuenberg alleges he met him by ap pointment at sheridan road and wilson j avenue and a large sum of money changed hands on a signal from dan nenberg fuukhouser's men ran forth and made the arrest the firm of cullet & meyers is made up of berthel j meyers formerly a special agent for the department of justice un der charles f de woody and harry cullet known as chicken harry for merly a detective traveling out of the south clark street station bribery is charged major funfchouser's statement follows there have been negotiations pend ing on the part of parties operating in the red light district with a view to bribing members of the staff of the second deputy superintendent of po lice major funkhouser after several meetings the affair took the shape of an attempt to bribe the inspector of morals w c dannenberg who at once informed major funkhouser and george l eeker assistant corporation counsel a close watch was kept on all meetings of the different parties interested and the conversations over the telephone were carefully taken dowu by stenographers iu the office of the second deputy it was proposed several times to mr dauueuberg that iu case he would ar range to keep his men off from certain houses in the district and in case he made raids to give notice beforehand so thht only a few should be taken and the fines would be light that he would receive the sum of l'oo from each house it was represented to him that there woman threatens wheeler son's wife asks thousands promises tunnel expose son's ex-actress wife promises financial rumble if she isn't paid mrs albert gallatin wheeler jr who used to be known as the pretty girl in the red tights in the heyday of her light operatic existence is about to start some thing she never tried before in the last two years she has been trying to collect the 000 a mouth alimony awarded to her with her divorce from wheeler and she has been trying in vain now i shall make certain financial rev elations"â€”the very words of the pretty young woman nhicn will agitate tlie world of money from Chicago to london mrs wheeler or claudia carlstedt as she is known when she is on the stage â€” says she is playing her last card and that she intends to make her multi-mil lionaire father-in-law come through or else expose him flnaacially the threat met with a smile or two when the girl first uttered it but she was very earnest she knows about the tunnels i am referring she said with dig nity to the freight tunnels in Chicago the secret history of them i know all about those tunnels and all about the men that put them through i know what al bert gallattn wheeler sr had to do with it i know what charles t yerkes did i know enough to start an awful rtimpus in la salle street or wall street or some where and the consequences might t)e something terrible if i should tell all i know but i'm going to do it if papa wheeler doesn't pay me my alimony claudia has been coustantly on the trail of her some-time father-in-law be cause she says he has custody of her former husband's fortune and she must mrs albert gallatin wheeler jr boy saves scores in fire in flats â€¢ one of ifie practical lessons he had learned at school enabled i fifteen-year old boy charlie beck of l'l kast wai ton place to assist in saving the lives or perhaps a score of people last night when you see a lire his teacher told the class a few days agq run to a tele phone and call up main zero and tell the operator where the fire is last night charlie was going home about 11 o'clock when he saw smoke rolling from the new garibaldi flats at bush street and walton place main zero flashed into his mind anil he ran to a telephone and gave the alarm then lie ran to the burning house and met policeman john qulnn just arriving charlie stood in the hallway and rang all the bells in turn while quinu worked through smoke and beat on the doors with his club everyone in the place was asleep on the fourth floor quinu stumbled over the body of mrs joseph roberts who awekened by the bell bad run into the hallway and been overcome by the smoke the policeman carried her to the street the eleven families gol to the street in safety among them are the families of c taylor 1 r strom joseph roberts and stephen le porte alter working for half an hour the ftremeu kept it fiom going above the basement several paintings in the art store of 11 7 heldrich & son on the first floor were ruiired crossed electric wires in the basement i probably caused the fire according t/a battalion chief arthur seyferlich mexicans imprison 16 americans three hot son of banker just released says that gustav bauch is among the captives held incommunicado at juarez while in cuartel eleven days he says he saw nine men lined up against the wall and â– put to death by general villa new york feb 26 a wash ington dispatch this morning state that machine guns and ammunition have been installed in the american embassy in mexico city this statement is said to have been con firmed at the war department rear admiral fletcher has urg.ed the sending of marines to mexico city and the war department is con sidering plans for sending 1,000 marines to the mexican capita washington feb 25 rigid investigation of the killing of cle menti vagarez by order of general villa was ordered by the 3tate de j partment to-day following official | confirmation from consul garrett at i laredo of early reports of the siay ing the investigation is to be made by consul garrett state department officials said they had heard that vagarez was killed on american soil as a warn ing to the united states by villa but that this had not been offi cially confirmed el paso tex feb 25 thai gustav ranch the american arrested while sight | seeing in juarez on february 13 charged with being 8 federal spy is being held [ incommunicado at the cuartel over t lie river is the statement made by a mleh aelis of brooklyn who says his father is a director of tlie union trust com pany michaelis was released from jail in juarez to-day lifter being held eleven days michaelis made this statement to mrs j m patterson states of banch confined in the juarez cunrtel are six i teen other americans aeeordins to mich aelis they are prohibited from talking to any visitors ut the euartel and when americana itc escorted through the prison the doors of cells of the american prisoners are closed and blankets hung over the peepholes three americans shot among the prisoners arc edward tra bard matt giddings 11 t mavis v k goodman and a railroad man named thornton while he was locked in a dungeon says michaelis he could look through the peephole into the patio of the | prison while he was held there he witnessed nine executions three of which were americans the others were mexicans among them 101 coyote on j five different days be saw men lined up against the adobe wall and u i 1 1 â– i ! an american named gray was among those executed according to michaelis â– bauch in solitary cell here follows the statement ii mkuae lis just twelve days ago 1 came to juarea for the purpose of sightseeing being on my way to the coast while playing poker i got into an ar gument with another player over the poa session of some chips and we engaged in a fight i was arrested when 1 was taken to the cuartel i met niauy other american prisoners there among whom was bauch ho is in solitary confinement but occasionally i hail an opportunity to speak with him as a little hole in the cell door was i thrown open he was much frightened concerning his safety fearing he was to be executed describes prisoner bauch told me the details of his ar rest saying he bad a bister mrs j m patterson who resided i 101 paso and requested me as soon ms released to get into communication with her and to nsfe her to notify the american authorities he is showing signs of nervous strain sleeps anil eats little his beard has grown out long and he has a haggard ap [ pev-nnce ijdftrp the american gave mr patter i a good description of her brother centlnued en 11th page 6th column continued on bth page 3d column ccntinued on 2d page 5th column examiner leads in circulation the daily and sunday examiner in january sold more papers in the city of Chicago than any other two morning papers with several thousand to spare circulation books open to the inspection of any advertiser .... , iji â– ' ' 1 . . ' .â– , the way you live depends mostly on where you live fr a cheerless room means a cheer %Â£)â€¢, â– Â£*- less heart an unsatisfactory board jtril ing house means a sour temper and ina bility to do good work why handicap yourself with either a forlorn looking room or a stingy looking table - ' j \ tt rhy not have a really good room a a ** really satisfactory boarding house s you can get either through examiner â– / : < â€¢>. want ads if you do not know it now // m you will find out that the best rooms jigllsl\j anc boarding houses are to be found a|;3 through examiner want ads g into sunday's s j2l want ad c Â° ntest Chicago and vicinity fair ( thursday followed by increasing jj ~^\ cloudiness rain or snow friday not o w much change in temperature v'^)v Â¥ itunse of temperatures yesterday a^fc^ils v highest 31 os&^^ik^i lowest 11 1,-o^7 vy " average l v u^mj .